Cybersecurity provider ZeroFOX announced today that it entered a partnership with Intel AI to automate the dismantling of the entire adversary kill chain and help customers protect their web domains and presence at internet scale and speed.
The cybersecurity provider claims that this makes it and Intel AI the first in the industry to enable the elimination of malicious domains by dismantling the entire adversary kill chain with its AI-powered enterprise domain protection solution.
Mike Price, Chief Technology Officer at ZeroFOX explained how the solution can help its customers by saying: “Over the last six months, the digital threat landscape has incredibly changed for our customers and organizations globally. Providing protection against the explosion in phishing kits and other digital threats requires rapid identification and remediation of threats that can only be achieved with advanced technology. Legacy vendors still attempt to do this with human analysis but the scale of the problem has exceeded what people can do alone. The application of our leading AI platform allows us to broadly scale protection for our customers, leading our competitors by focusing on dismantling the complete kill chain at every critical step.”
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ZeroFOX is a cybersecurity solutions provider who protects companies from cybercrime across various platforms and channels that include social media, mobile apps, surface, deep and dark web, codeshare repositories, email and collaboration platforms, and more.
Giving testimony to ZeroFOX and its cybersecurity specialties was the inclusion of the company in the World Economic Forums 100 most promising Technology Pioneers of 2020.
The company claimed in its Digital Cyber Kill Chain report that it has analysed 2.9bn content pieces, detected and analysed 8.9m events, and processed 98k takedowns over a 12 month period ranging from May 2018-2019.
The cybersecurity provider has globally recognised clients on its roster using its suite of products and services who include BAE Systems, First Command, Hootsuite, and Immarsat.
The cybersecurity provider wrote that the use of malicious domains to conduct targeted phishing attacks has rapidly grown to be a top concern of cyber risk for businesses and governments worldwide, an issue it is aiming to reduce with its solutions.
Intel has an existing relationship with the cybersecurity provider as the Santa Clara based technology company leading a $74m funding round for the Baltimore based cybersecurity cloud company.
With the partnership in place with Intel AI, ZeroFOX notes that it has enabled them to provide category-leading domain URL collection, AI analysis, and mitigation to dismantle the entire kill chain from the malicious domain standup to the operational threat campaign.
ZeroFOX noted in the press release that it is leveraging the scale of AI combined with advanced analytics in an effort to deliver the best-in-class protection for enterprise domains to enable customers, partners, and employees to protect digital credibility and trust.
ZeroFOX uses a suite of AI and machine learning tools to identify threats, identify attack planning, and protect its customers which include computer vision, domain URL collection and analysis, natural language processing (NLP), optical character recognition (OCR), and fraud detection.
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The cybersecurity provider explained that disruption occurs at multiple stages from identifying attack planning via dark web monitoring, researching and proactively registering look-a-like domains, quickly removing live, spoofed domains during attack weaponisation phase, and dismantling the methods of distribution of fake domains.
The company explains how each of the tools used assists in spotting attacks, reducing attacks, and mitigating additional security risks for customers who use the service that is supported by Intel AI.
Computer vision can detect images and objects including logo usage and fraudulent or impersonated images, to stop brand abuse through spoofed and impersonating domains.
Domain URL collection and analysis can quickly identify phishing links leveraging an organisation’s brand or targeting its customers and employees through social and digital channels.
NLP can analyse text for nefarious or malicious language, including social engineering, negative sentiment, spear phishing, and other posts’ intent on scamming customers.
OCR can identify malicious text embedded in images designed to avoid traditional detection.
Fraud detection can scan text and image-based posts for fraudulent scams targeting customers that link to attacker sites.
